System and method for estimating cell center position for cell ID based positioning
First Claim
1. A method for estimating a cell location for a cell that provides wireless communication services to a plurality of mobile stations each mobile station having a Satellite Positioning System (“
- SPS”
) receiver operating in a positioning system, the method comprising;
obtaining a mobile station location for each of N mobile stations having a cell identifier that identifies the cell, each mobile station location being determined using the positioning system; and
calculating an estimated location of a cell center based on a statistical measure of the mobile station locations of the N mobile stations in the cell where the statistical measure is either a maximum likelihood location or a mean mobile station location.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for estimating a cell center location in a wireless communication system having an interface to a satellite positioning system (“SPS”) such as for example, a Geosynchronous Positioning System (“GPS”). The wireless communication system provides service to mobile stations within a cell, each mobile station includes a SPS receiver. Examples of the systems and methods for estimating a cell center location analyze the mobile station locations in a cell as a uniform distribution of mobile station locations and calculate a statistical measure characterizing the mobile station locations as a function of the mobile station locations. In one example, the statistical measure is a maximum likelihood mobile station location. In another example, the statistical measure is the mean mobile station location in the cell. The estimated cell center location may be used to approximate the location of the mobile station during a warm or cold restart of the SPS receiver part of the mobile station.
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1. A method for estimating a cell location for a cell that provides wireless communication services to a plurality of mobile stations each mobile station having a Satellite Positioning System (“
- SPS”
) receiver operating in a positioning system, the method comprising;
obtaining a mobile station location for each of N mobile stations having a cell identifier that identifies the cell, each mobile station location being determined using the positioning system; and
calculating an estimated location of a cell center based on a statistical measure of the mobile station locations of the N mobile stations in the cell where the statistical measure is either a maximum likelihood location or a mean mobile station location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for estimating a cell center location in a satellite positioning system (“
- SPS”
) comprising;
a SPS server connected to the SPS system to retrieve a plurality of mobile station locations from mobile stations in a cell in a wireless communication system, each mobile station comprising an SPS receiver;
a SPS database for storing the plurality of mobile station locations and a cell identifier to identify the cell in which the mobile station is obtaining wireless communications service; and
a cell center location estimator for calculating an estimated cell center location by obtaining N mobile station locations assumed to be uniformly distributed in a cell i and calculating a statistical measure of the mobile station locations, where the statistical measure is either a maximum likelihood mobile station location or a mean mobile station location. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer readable medium having programmed instructions for operation in a wireless communication system that uses a satellite positioning system (“
- SPS”
), the computer readable medium comprising;
a SPS database interface for retrieving data relating to a plurality of mobile stations in a cell of the wireless communications system, the data including, for each mobile station, a mobile station location and a cell identifier to identify the cell in which the mobile station is obtaining wireless communications service; and
a plurality of programmed instruction for calculating an estimated cell center location by obtaining N mobile station locations assumed to be uniformly distributed in a cell i and calculating a statistical measure of the mobile station locations, where the statistical measure is either a maximum likelihood mobile station location or a mean mobile station location. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An apparatus in a wireless communication system a satellite positioning system (“
- SPS”
) comprising;
a first interface to a SPS database for retrieving from storage in the SPS database a plurality of mobile station locations corresponding to a plurality of mobile stations operating in a cell of the wireless communication system and a cell identifier to identify the cell in which the mobile station is obtaining wireless communications service; and
a cell center location estimator for calculating an estimated cell center location by obtaining N mobile station locations assumed to be uniformly distributed in a cell i and calculating a statistical measure of the mobile station locations, where the statistical measure is either a maximum likelihood mobile station location or a mean mobile station location. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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